Alsu frankly speaks for the first time about her divorce and life in a "golden cage"

Alsou gave a big interview for OK! magazine. During the conversation with Vadim Vernik, the 42-year-old singer talked about her "fairy tale" childhood, family dictatorship, and the reasons for her split with husband Yan Abramov after 18 years of marriage. Spletnik has gathered the most important points.

Alsou admitted that she had always been under the care of men. First, her father, who created a "beautiful life with all possibilities, with education, career" for her. "Dad did everything for his only daughter, fulfilled any whim. I never worried about anything, I always knew that any problem and any question would be solved and closed," she said, adding that she "thanks her parents and fate for this almost fairy-tale life."

Alsou's father, Ralif Safin, was the vice president of the oil company "Lukoil" at the turn of the 2000s. It was his capital that built the singer's career, which is why people even nicknamed her the "singing gas station."

And when at 23 she got married, and she was "transferred from her father's hands" to her husband Yan Abramov's hands, she "didn't feel any difference." "Yan protected me, took care of me, he gave me a beautiful life, like my dad did before. In this sense, yes, I lived very comfortably. I felt like I was behind a stone wall. All issues were taken care of: household, staff - anything," noted the singer.

Businessman Yan Abramov is the son of a banker and chairman of the board of directors of the company "New Weapons Technologies." His wedding with Alsou was characterized by grand celebrations. The newlyweds received their marriage certificate from the hands of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, and from parents and guests they received a country house in Moscow, jewelry, and a Bentley car as gifts. The ceremonial part of the wedding took place in the state concert hall "Russia," and the couple spent their honeymoon in the Fiji archipelago.

After the wedding, Alsou, who by that time had already been on stage for eight years, had hits and a second place at Eurovision, "at some point stopped working a lot" - at her husband's wish. "It wasn't some kind of prohibition, but I understood that my professional activity would disrupt some family idyll. Yes, Yan didn't want me to perform at corporate events: why do you need this, you already have everything. I'm a Cancer by zodiac sign, and I'm 100% a family person. I'm not ambitious in terms of career, it wasn't my goal," she explained, noting that at that time she "was number one" on stage and was at the peak of her popularity: she filled stadiums, was called a "princess," and every girl had diaries with her image.

According to the singer, although the number of performances decreased dramatically, she didn't suffer because of this, nor from the lack of "some kind of her own income." Moreover, Abramov continued to persuade her. "'What else do you need? You already have everything,' he would say. And so it turned out that I was dependent on him. Well, that's normal. My parents have